October 16, 2015

Well, let’s face
it, Linux is cool. Using Linux makes you look cool. But, for new users, may be not so much. Typing
those long commands can be a little intimidating and may even scare
them off.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was a way, so that you won’t have to type long
commands? Or even better, to create your own new commands by which you can do a
lot of stuff?
You are in luck, because Aliases help you with that and much more.

What are Aliases
anyway?Alias, as the
name suggests is an alternate form of a previously existing command(s). So
basically you are creating your own custom command with which you can do a lot of functions. Enough with the
definitions, let’s see an example.
Say you want to go to the Desktop folder. You would have to do something like this,

[dsp@freblogg]$:~ cd /home/dsp/Desktop

How about instead
of typing all that, you just say desk like this and it takes you to
Desktop?